He was only a suspicious man made narrower by isolation, and the highest idea he had of what God required of him was a life of innocence.

There was better in him than this--much of impulse and action that was positively good; but he did not conceive that it was of the workings of good that seemed so natural that God took account.
Upon Saul also the psalm had adequate effect, for it sounded to him pious, and that was all he desired.
The girl, however, could not listen to a word of it.

She fidgeted, not with movement of hands or feet, but with the restlessness of mind and eyes.

She gazed at the boards of the ceiling, at the boards of the floor, at the log walls on which each shadow had a scalloped edge because of the form of tree-trunks laid one above another.

At length her eyes rested on the lid of the coffin, and, with nervous strain, she made them follow the grain of the wood up and down, up and down.